Legal Opinion
United States v. John Fitzgerald Rogers
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 9, 1990No. 90-3016PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge THOMAS.
CLARENCE THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
On July 14; 1989, police officers Tyrone McKelvy and Curt Sloan saw a group of men gathered near a wall behind 4226 Fourth Street, S.E., in Washington, D.C. John Fitzgerald Rogers sat on the wall with a gym bag beside him. Rogers and the others also saw the policemen. Someone said “get the bag”; Rogers grabbed it, ran towards the St. Thomas More School (about six hundred feet away, at number 4265), and threw the gym bag into a sewer. McKelvy and Sloan arrested Rogers near the school’s entrance. When McKelvy…
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